It promotes the freest intercourse between man and man, and thus civilises what we call the ❋ Unknown (2006)
Aujourd'hui, le point de vue du Quebec est respecte a Ottawa et les echanges entre les deux gouvernements sont civilises. ❋ Unknown (1980)
This is what we did not find among other people, and may be owing to the remains of Christianity which was once planted here by a Dutch missionary of Protestants, and it is a testimony of what I have often observed, viz. that the Christian religion always civilises the people, and reforms their manners, where it is received, whether it works saving effects upon them or no. ❋ Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe (1958)
In exact proportion to its vigour, it wins over former enemies, civilises the barbarian, and even tames the viper, when the eye is masterful and sympathetic enough to dispel hatred and fear. ❋ George Santayana (1907)
But to sit for an hour or two each evening in quiet, orderly enjoyment, with graceful things about one, talking of whatever is pleasant -- how it civilises! ❋ George Gissing (1880)
The exclusively French culture in vogue at the Court of Catherine assumed a more cosmopolitan colouring, and permeated downwards till all who had any pretensions to being civilises spoke French with tolerable fluency and possessed at least a superficial acquaintance with the literature of Western Europe. ❋ Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1880)
It promotes the freest intercourse between man and man, and thus civilises what we call the "lower orders": in no Moslem land, from Morocco to China, do we find the brutals without manners or morals which are bred by ❋ Anonymous (1855)
England fills the world and civilises the world with her redundant population, and all her colonies flourish, and remind you of a swarm of bees which have just left the old hive and are busy in providing for themselves. ❋ Frank Marryat (1840)
Dutch missionary of Protestants, and it is a testimony of what I have often observed, viz. that the Christian religion always civilises the people, and reforms their manners, where it is received, whether it works saving effects upon them or no. ❋ Daniel Defoe (1696)
"Yes, but when there are ladies present it civilises the men." ❋ Julie Bindel (2010)
Through his humane, funny, impassioned, acutely-observed and often brilliantly argued verse, Burns shows us that if we keep those realms continually in dialogue, each tempers, civilises and refines the laws of the others. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mugabe, patron of Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC), once declared: "Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. ❋ David Smith In Harare (2010)
a fait civilises, and whose mode of life differs little from that of the richer nobles; but they remain outside fashionable society, and constitute a "set" of their own. ❋ Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1880)
According to DBA, "the integrated sustainable design approach combines microclimate, landscape, transport and a compact building volume with low-energy design to establish a service facility that humanises and civilises the environment of the corporate workplace [and] provides acoustic shelter from the nearby M50. ❋ Unknown (2009)
[Refined] [dining] is said by some to be the epitome of [civilisation] and then there's McDonalds. ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)
[Yo] “ [this town] is really [civilisating] itself” ❋ Town Maker (2021)
An example of civilised - 2 friends drinking 3 bottles of wine, [staggering] home via the Indian and not remembering entering the building let alone having a conversation with a little Indian man, then falling [sleep on] your friends floor before waking up and puking all over their [settee] and laptop. ❋ Day Long Legs (2014)
[P1]. "[theres] a lol-civilisation over there"
[P2]. "lets join " ❋ 3323454211997643 (2009)
The [Kundian Civilisation] is for Kundians ❋ The Kundian (2023)
